R: serialize R objects to JSON

serializeJSON {jsonlite} | R Documentation

## serialize R objects to JSON

### Description

The `serializeJSON` and `unserializeJSON` functions convert between R objects to JSON data. Instead of using a class based mapping like `toJSON` and `fromJSON`, the serialize functions base the encoding schema on the storage type, and capture all data and attributes from any object. Thereby the object can be restored almost perfectly from its JSON representation, but the resulting JSON output is very verbose. Apart from environments, all standard storage types are supported.

### Usage

    serializeJSON(x, digits = 8, pretty = FALSE)

    unserializeJSON(txt)

### Arguments

`x` | an R object to be serialized
`digits` | max number of digits (after the dot) to print for numeric values
`pretty` | add indentation/whitespace to JSON output. See `prettify`
`txt` | a JSON string which was created using `serializeJSON`

### Note

JSON is a text based format which leads to loss of precision when printing numbers.

### Examples

    jsoncars <- serializeJSON(mtcars)
    mtcars2 <- unserializeJSON(jsoncars)
    identical(mtcars, mtcars2)

    set.seed('123')
    myobject <- list(
      mynull = NULL,
      mycomplex = lapply(eigen(matrix(-rnorm(9),3)), round, 3),
      mymatrix = round(matrix(rnorm(9), 3),3),
      myint = as.integer(c(1,2,3)),
      mydf = cars,
      mylist = list(foo='bar', 123, NA, NULL, list('test')),
      mylogical = c(TRUE,FALSE,NA),
      mychar = c('foo', NA, 'bar'),
      somemissings = c(1,2,NA,NaN,5, Inf, 7 -Inf, 9, NA),
      myrawvec = charToRaw('This is a test')
    );
    identical(unserializeJSON(serializeJSON(myobject)), myobject);

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